The Cover

This is definitely the most important thing to consider when having a book published. The cover is the device which encourages us to pick up the book, look at the blurb and have a read. In most cases if the book's cover is boring it may hint that the publisher is lazy and has not put effort into indicating that there may have not been much effort put into it. On the cover my book is a lot to soak up, The main title is surrounded by the gears found in a clock. The main picture has the three main characters emerging from a flash of light and behind them is the main setting, New York where they time travel to. Under the main title is a Slogan and even further bellow is the authors name in capital letters. The thing that really caught my attention when first seeing this book was the massive title taking up a quarter of the book cover all capitals and golden. Taking this cover as an example a well designed cover needs big capital letters for the title, one main graphical element such as a logo or an event which takes place in the story. What I would find unappealing in a book cover is if the publisher has put little effort in the cover if the cover contains no quality it would lead me to believe the story contains poor quality as well. The Cover is really never what interests me in a book it is my friend who recommends a book to me which I will usually enjoy and end up becoming very fond of that particular book. The cover of my friends book looked very appealing to the eye at first glance, the title of the book is "Six Impossible Things" it was a very well thought out and designed cover. It had multiple extractions from a school kids notebook this made me infer that the book was about a boy going to school, I could tell the author put a lot of effort and thought into the cover